Pieces Of Light by Adam Thorpe
Hugh Arkwright's remote childhood in the Central African bush, and its sudden disruption leaves him with a legacy of magic, mystery, and tragic loss.Late in his life, he returns to the gaunt house in Ulverton where he was brought up by his eccentric uncle and finds that the old ghosts still walk. The more he excavates his own past, the deeper he finds the traces of ancient horrors. The autumnal air of Ulverton begins to take on the taint of corruption, and a mystery starts that ends with vengeance, murder and a sudden, staggering revelation. The mild English manners of the village of darkness beneath the heart of oak.
PIECES OF LIGHT is a modern novel steeped in a resonant past; where rural England and colonial Africa collide. Densely wrought and vividly imagined, Adam Thorpe's return to Ulverton is a fictional triumph - thrilling and unforgettable.
Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity Fair is an English novel which follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley amid their friends and families during and after the Napoleonic Wars.The novel that chronicles the lives of two women who could not be more different: Becky Sharp, an orphan whose only resources are her vast ambitions, her native wit, and her loose morals; and her schoolmate Amelia Sedley, a typically naive Victorian heroine, the pampered daughter of a wealthy family.
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.
We will choose our next book at our meeting at 8pm on Thursday 27th September 2018, at The Hundred when we will discuss our current read: Their Finest by Lissa Evans.
